Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken)

Zeron is a Chinese electric heavy-duty truck startup founded in 2022 by Huang Zehua, a former co-founder of TuSimple. The company builds autonomous driving trucks with vertically integrated hardware and software, and has raised approximately 400M USD in cumulative funding including a 200M Series B2 in May 2026.

Yes. Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) is made by Zeron, based in China.

2 verified deployments of Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) are on the DEPLOY registry, including at China, Asia, United States (multiple hotel chains).

Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) is in pilot deployments with named customers and is not yet broadly for sale.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable truck robots to Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) include Gatik Autonomous Box Truck, Kodiak Driverless Truck, Aurora Driver on International LT (2nd-gen), Kodiak Driver.

Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) and Gatik Autonomous Box Truck (Gatik · 12 deployments) are both truck robots on the DEPLOY registry. Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) has 2 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) ranks in roughly the top 77% of truck models tracked by the registry.

Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) is at the pilot stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Pilot stage means at least one named-customer trial deployment is verified.

Zeron Jingzhe (Awaken) has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.